Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags

Emmanuel Dias Neto, Ricardo Garcia Correa, Sergio Verjovski-Almeida, Marcelo R.S. Briones, Maria Aparecida Nagai, Wilson Da Silva, Marco Antonio Zago, Silvana Bordin, Fernando Ferreira Costa, Gustavo Henrique Goldman, Alex F. Carvalho, Adriana Matsukuma, Gilson S. Baia, David H. Simpson, Adriana Brunstein, Paulo S.L. De Oliveira, Philipp Bucher, C. Victor Jongeneel, Michael J. O'Hare, Fernando SoaresRicardo R. Brentani, Luis F.L. Reis, Sandro J. De Souza, Andrew J.G. Simpson

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Abstract

Theoretical considerations predict that amplification of expressed gene transcripts by reverse transcription-PCR using arbitrarily chosen primers will result in the preferential amplification of the central portion of the transcript. Systematic, high-throughput sequencing of such products would result in an expressed sequence tag (EST) database consisting of central, generally coding regions of expressed genes. Such a database would add significant value to existing public EST databases, which consist mostly of sequences derived from the extremities of cDNAs, and facilitate the construction of contigs of transcript sequences. We tested our predictions, creating a database of 10,000 sequences from human breast tumors. The data confirmed the central distribution of the sequences, the significant normalization of the sequence population, the frequent extension of contigs composed of existing human ESTs, and the identification of a series of potentially important homologues of known genes. This approach should make a significant contribution to the early identification of important human genes, the deciphering of the draft human genome sequence currently being compiled, and the shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3491-3496
Number of pages6
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume97
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 28 2000
Externally publishedYes

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